OPPORTUNISTIC VISTAS: The Films of Cynthia Hooper AT CLUI CULVER CITY

OPPORTUNISTIC VISTAS: The Films of Cynthia Hooper
Exhibit open January 22 - February 28, 2010

Cynthia Hooper creates short films that observe sites such as waste disposal landscapes, effluent pipes, and salt mines. This CLUI Independent Interpreter exhibit features seven of Hooper’s films: CESPT, Cuyahoga, Bay Dredge, Cummings Road Landfill, Lazaro Cardenas Electrizada, Basura Quemada, and La Morita Enamorada.

Opening night event - Cynthia Hooper will talk about trans-border water issues in the Mexicali Valley of Mexico and the Imperial Valley of Southern California, and will screen her latest film, Meximperiali on Friday, January 22 at 8pm. Please arrive early - seating is limited.

The Center for Land Use Interpretation
9331 Venice Blvd.
Culver City, CA 90232
310.839.5722 office
310.839.6678 fax
clui@clui.org
www.clui.org

Exhibit is open 12 - 5 PM, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday, or by appointment.
Admission is free.

CLUI tour of the Oilscape of Los Angeles (Cynthia Hooper)

From Cynthia Hooper via the LandArts Listserve:

Part I:


Part II:

Cynthia Hooper Lecture @ Sea and Space Explorations

CESPT, 2009, color video, running time: 7 minutes

Chris Taylor (Land Arts of the American West Listserv) sends word of Cynthia Hooper's lecture this Sunday, May 17 @ 7:30, at Sea and Space Explorations in Los Angeles. Hooper's lecture is in conjunction with Nicole Antebi's and May Jong's exhibition Through the Looking Glass: The Los Angeles Aqueduct.

Hooper will also screen a 7 minute video entitled CESPT:

The two rivers that serve the city of Tijuana, Mexico—the inbound Colorado and the outbound Tijuana—are two heavily litigated, politically contentious, courageously border-defying bodies of water. Artificially yoked by a 118-mile long aqueduct that spans northern Baja’s vast desert, these two conjoined entities labor to hydrate this rapidly and perilously expanding metropolis. This video investigates one particular segment of this vast, transnational trajectory of water—from its storage at the city’s picturesque reservoir, to its transport, treatment, remediation, and ultimate release into the Pacific Ocean.

We've embedded CESPT below for those of us who can't make the screening. You can also view it and several of Hooper's other works on Vimeo.

CESPT from Cynthia Hooper on Vimeo.